Vest or the like undergarment



Nov. 1, 1927. 1,647,952

H. BLAIR VEST OR THE LIKE UNDERGARMENT Filed Aug. 31. 1925 i edges.

Patented Nov. 1, 1 32? warren stares htdldlhit HENRY BLAIR, OF LONDON, ENG-LAND.

VEST OR THE LIKE UNDERGARMENT.

Application filed August 31, 1925, Serial No. 53,634, and in Great Britain September 25, 1924.

This invention of improvements in undergarments commonly known or described as vests, has for its main object the provision of adequate front and rear protection to the organs of the body in the region of the lungs, chest, stomach and kidneys. Further ob jects are to simplify the construction of such protective garments without creating bulk, giving a certain degree of adjustability, preserving a smooth flat front, avoiding injurious pressure and allowing freedom of movement.

In the specification of prior British Patent No. 192,224 there are described combinat on undergarments of the kind wherein the leg portions, or more correctly, that part of the leg portions approximately between the waist and the crotch, extend one over the other on both the back and front of the garment, the said overlapping parts being roughly of triangular shape and Lin-joined at the crotch and at their inclined or side In the saiclprior invention acombination garment is constructed wherein the above-described double-wrap feature is ex tended above the waist, the freedom of the bottom flaps being retained and the upper extension being either permanently overlapped (as by sewing) or being detachably secured (such as by a but-toned or other front or back flap).

I am now applying this double-wrap feature to non-bifurcated garments, which are herein generally alluded to as vests. In the present invention, the bottom triangular halves of the overlapping portions are fixedly joined together below the waist Where the garment is of tubular form as distinct from bifurcated.

The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrate more clearly the way the invention carried into effect and in said drawings Figure 1 is a front view of a completelybuttoning top-half garment.

Figure 2 is a back view.

Figure 3 is a front view of a half-buttoning top-half garment.

Figure 4 is a front view of a form wherein no buttons or other temporary fastenings are employed.

Figure 5 illustrates the employment of a Suspender feature hereinafter referred to.

The objects of the invention are attained in the garment by means of overlapping folds of fabric preferably cut in two pieces, so that by inserting one fold of one half of the garment between the folds of the other half, a double thickness of fabric is made to be over and cover the regions of the body as hereinbefore set forth.

These overlappingfolds or flaps of fabric can then be joined together to make a complete garment by suitable stitching or buttons or the like on the edge of the overlapping folds.

In all the figures it will be seen that each half a and Z) of the garment consists of two folds a, a and b, 6 cut with a triangular or pointed edge. These are assembled together, 0 between the folds of the other half, the pointed edges forming the diamond-shape double-wrap 0 at the back and c at the front In each case the triangular flaps of the overlapping portions 0 and e which lie below the waist are stitched down to ensure that the adequate cover for the lower organs of the body is permanently secured without risk of gaping or exposure. The portion above the waist may be secured at the front by buttons, as shown in Figure 1, or partly by buttons supplemented by suitable stitching as in Figure 3, or by stitching only as in Figure 4:; the garment could also be sccured by tape-ties, or equivalents in lieu of buttons or other fasteners.

The back of the garment is in each case secured by suitable stitching as shown in Figure 2, but if a garment with back opening were necessary, could be done.

The spirit of the invention will not be departed from if either or each half of the garment be made from more than one piece of fabric or material.

Figure 5 shows a side suspender attaohment (Z attached by stitching or other suitable fastening, to each side of the garment from under the arm, to a suitable point on the lower portion of the garment. In addition to the usual object of the provision of buttons orbutton-holes to which can be attached the stocking suspenders, the employment of suspenders with a vest garment, and especially with the garment having the objects herein set forth, creates a definite control sufficient to keep the lower portion of the garment always in that position on the it is apparent that this body which ensures that the protective portrons are over the regions to be protected, and prevents the garment rising upon the figone fold of each half sandwiehin ure, or rucking in such a way as to leave those regions liable to exposure.

It is to be understood that the garment may be made either with or Without the side suspender attachment.

The form of suspender attachment may be varied. The strap (Z, instead of terminating under or near the arm-pits as illustrated, may be extended in looped formation to pass over the shoulder. It can either follow the arm-hole at the junction of the sleeve, or pass over the shoulder at some other point intermediate of the sleeve junction and neck openin I claim 1- A tubular body garment having at its front superposed overlying flaps extending from neck opening to bottom edge of said garment and secured along their lower edges forming doubled walled portions arranged to HENRY BLAIR. 

